Studies

Oct 2011- Ph.D., Chair of Programming Methodology,
Department of Computer Science,
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Advisor : Peter Müller
Completion of Ph.D. courses
GPA : 6/6
2009-2011 Work on concurrency error detection in Erlang
Advisor : Kostis Sagonas
Completion of Ph.D. courses, Division of Computer Science,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
GPA : 9.83/10
2003-2009 Diploma,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
GPA : 8.58/10 (upper 9%)
Major : Computer Science
Thesis : Race Condition Detection in Concurrent Erlang Applications
Using Static Analysis
Advisor : Kostis Sagonas
2000-2003 American School of Madrid, Spain
GPA : 3.92/4

Awards and Distinctions

2013 Google Anita Borg Scholarship Finalist award
2011 Grant for attending Summer School Marktoberdorf, Bayrischzell, Germany
2009-2010 Empirikion scholarship for research
2009 Thomaideio award for publishing "Static Detection of Race Conditions in Erlang",
one of the best 200 research papers among all departments
of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece
2009 Distinction for submitting the best diploma thesis
in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece
2003 National Honor Society award,
American School of Madrid, Spain
2000-2003 High Honor Roll award,
American School of Madrid, Spain
1998-2000 Excellence and Progress awards,
3rd High School of Ilioupoli, Athens, Greece
1999 Basketball championship in the prefecture of Attica
on the team of the 3rd High School of Ilioupoli, Athens, Greece

Summer Schools and Seminars

Jan 2013 Symbolic Methods in Testing
Dagstuhl Seminar, Saarland, Germany
Dec 2012 Programming Language Seminar, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Jun 2012 SAT/SMT Summer School, Trento, Italy
Aug 2011 Tools for Analysis and Verification of Software Safety and Security
Summer School Marktoberdorf, Bayrischzell, Germany
Dec 2010 Programming Language Seminar, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Service

2013 Reviewer for International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT),
Special Section on VerifyThis'12
2013 External reviewer for OOPSLA'13
2012 Student volunteer for ICSE'12
2011 External reviewer for PADL'11
2010 External reviewer for DAMP'10

Teaching Experience

Oct 2012 Head teaching assistant in the compact course "Quality Assurance in .NET with Code Contracts",
Department of Computer Science
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Lecturer : Peter Müller
2011-2012 Teaching assistant in "Computer Science for Mathematicians and Physicists",
Department of Computer Science
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Lecturers : Bernd Gärtner, Juraj Hromkovic
Spring 2012 Head teaching assistant in "Software Architecture and Engineering",
Department of Computer Science
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Lecturer : Peter Müller
Spring 2012 Teaching assistant in "Research Topics in Software Engineering",
Department of Computer Science
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Lecturers : Peter Müller, Martin Vechev
Fall 2011 Teaching assistant in "Software and Security Testing",
Department of Computer Science
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Lecturers : David Basin, Peter Müller
2009-2011 Teaching assistant in "Programming Languages I",
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Lecturers : Nikolaos Papaspyrou, Kostis Sagonas
2009-2011 Teaching assistant in "Computer Programming",
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Lecturers : Stathis Zachos, Nikolaos Papaspyrou, Dimitris Fotakis

Work Experience

Summer 2010 Developed a new feature for the static analysis tool dialyzer.
Requested by Erlang/OTP's paying customers.

Languages

Greek Mother tongue
English TOEFL iBT (Score: 117/120), 2011
Certificate of Proficiency in English (University of Cambridge), 2003
Italian Diploma di Lingua Italiana (CELI 5), 2011
Spanish Diploma Superior de Español, 2003
French Diplôme d'Études en Langue Française (DELF), 2001

Other Studies

Nov 2006 Attended the Education Center and Career Conference,
Peace and Friendship Stadium, Athens, Greece
1998-2000 Played on the basketball team of the 3rd High School of Ilioupoli, Athens, Greece
1994-1998 Tennis
1992-1998 Piano
1994-1997 Swimming

Hobbies

Biking, hiking, skiing, reading literature, listening to music...

Contact

Maria Christakis
ETH Zurich
Department of Computer Science
Chair of Programming Methodology
CAB F 39
Universitätstrasse 6
8092 Zürich
Switzerland
Email:
Skype: mariachristakis
Phone: +41 44 632 26 17